Curriculum Vitae Catalina Florina Florescu, Ph.D.

Pace University, English Department

41 Park Row, New York, NY fflorescu@pace.edu

http://www.catalinaflorescu.com/ Education and Credentials Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2007 Dissertation: Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces1 Committee: Thomas Adler and Elizabeth K. Mix (co-chairs); Keith Dickson; Floyd Merrell Areas of Expertise: Comparative Contemporary Literature (emphasis on theater and memoir); Literary Theory; Cultural Studies; Medical Humanities; the Arts M.A., Comparative Literature, 2003 Thesis: The Ontological and Epistemological Significance of Silence in the Works of Edward Hopper, Edvard Munch, Samuel Beckett, and Duane Hanson Committee: Elizabeth K. Mix and Sandor Goodhart Areas of Expertise: Literary Theory; Cultural Studies; Theater; the Arts University of Bucharest, Romania B.A., Romanian Literature and Language; minor, American Literature, 1998 Work Experience Pace University, Manhattan, New York (2014- present) * INT 299 W (honors, learning community)2 21st Century Dramatic Texts as Inter-Cultural Dialogue3 * LIT 211G (honors, learning community) Worlds in Lit: Immigration and Englishes4 LIT 303: Introduction to Cultural Studies LIT 211: The Individual and Society LIT 212: Romanticism and the Modern World ENG 120: Exile in Literature, Cinema & Visual Arts ENG 201: The Movies: From Literature to Cinema ENG 201: The Arts: Visual Arts, Drama, Dance & Music ENG 201: Writing in the Disciplines ENG 110: Composition

1 Cited in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Oxford Journals, 64.4 (2009), www.jhmas.oxfordjournals.org 2 An asterisk next to a course means I developed and created new courses and invited faculty from other departments to join me. For 21st Century Dramatic Texts as Inter-Cultural Dialogue, I teamed up with Dr. Cosmin Ion Chivu (Performance Arts General Education). For Immigration and Englishes, with Dr. Mignonette Chiu (Women’s and Gender Studies) 3 Awarded grant, the Pace Path for Innovation, “Legacies: Moving Forward,” fall 2017 4 Awarded grant, the Pace Path for Innovation, “Civic Action,” spring 2018

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Invited Performances/ Readings/ Posters “Suicidal Dog and Laika, A Dramatic Reading with the Author in Search of an Audience.” Great Writing. The International Writing Conference, Imperial College, London, UK, June 2018.

“Dramatic Translations with a Twist,” SRS Annual Conference, Romania 100: Looking Forward through the Past,” Bucharest, Romania, June, 2018

Poetry reading from my volume of poems, The Night I Burned My Origami Skin. Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Annual Conference, Tampa, FL 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTFbJM_BZ5g&index=1&list=UUra7jQXJvN6AIglLDzX0X0A

(Guest Speaker) About Immigration and Englishes, CEERES of Voices, U of Chicago, IL, 12 January 2018 https://ceeres.uchicago.edu/content/ceeres-voices-returns-fall

(Guest Speaker) “The Inter-play of Ekphrastic Readings of Femininity Post-Mastectomy,” Invited Talk, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, 9 November 2017 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/interplay-ekphrastic-readings-femininity-post-mastectomy https://college.harvard.edu/interplay-ekphrastic-readings-femininity-post-mastectomy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5r69DlL840

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“Ce rămâne după viață?” Spectacol-lectură, Muzeul Literaturii Române, Bucureşti, 16 octombrie, 2017 Social media: https://www.facebook.com/events/365862370505868/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%22376%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&pnref=story Editorial: https://bookhub.ro/ce-ramane-dupa-viata-impresii-dupa-spectacol-2/

”Nothing to Hide/Nimic de ascuns,” Reading from my play Mia, Romanian Cultural Institute, New York City, NY, October 6th, 2017 (Invited guest, Rania Rashoodi) Social media: http://www.icrny.org/675-Nothing_to_Hide.html http://icr.ro/new-york/nimic-de-ascuns-o-seara-despre-curajul-de-a-se-vindeca https://www.agerpres.ro/comunicate/2017/09/26/comunicat-de-presa-icr-new-york-20-18-39

“Breast Poster” and “Cancer Poster.” Scrabble Cancer Project. An Evening at MoMA. New York City Regional Arts in Healthcare Groups and Access Programs at Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2012

“Breast Poster” and “Cancer Poster.” Scrabble Cancer Project. Think Art Conference, Commonwealth Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Boston University, 2011

“The Secret Passage,” LaLa Gallery and Studio. Cancer, Culture, and Community Project, Lafayette, Indiana (based on the original short autobiographical story “Rodica Has a Hole.” Text: Catalina Florina Florescu; Graphic interpretation: Rachel Tobias), 2011

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Three as in Tri-Angle, or the Aftertastes of Life, A reading of my play (passages), Theme: Masculinities. Urban Stages Theater, 2010 “This Blood which Is My Water.” Panel: “Original Prose Reading,” English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities. Fall Conference: A River Runs through Us: Exploring the Poetics of Space. Lock Haven, 2010 Honors and Awards The Path Pace Innovation Award. Title of the project: “Civic Action,” for Learning Community Course “Worlds in Lit: Immigration & Englishes,” Pace University, Manhattan Campus, Spring 2018 Recipient of the President Friedman and Provost Sukhatme’s Undergraduate Research Grant for the 2017-2018 academic year, Pace University Recipient of the President Friedman and Provost Sukhatme’s Faculty-Student Research Grant, Pace University, Project: “Overlapped Semantics of Survival after Communism and War,” Pace U, 2017

Recipient of the President Friedman and Provost Sukhatme’s Faculty-Student Research Grant, Pace University, Project: “Sharing Englishes & Social Media,” Pace U, 2017 The Path Pace Innovation Award. Title of the project: “Legacies: Moving Forward,” for Learning Community Course INT LC 299 Honors: 21st Century Dramatic Texts as Inter-Cultural Dialogue, Pace University, Manhattan Campus, Fall 2017 MLA Forum Executive Committee, LLC Romanian, 2017-2020 https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Results-of-the-2016-MLA-Elections Recipient of the President Friedman and Provost Sukhatme’s Faculty-Student Research Grant, Pace University, Project: “Reinvented Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Project,” Pace University, 2016 Reader and Judge, The Stanley Drama Award Competition, Wagner College, 2014-2016

Modern Language Association — International Bibliography Fellowship, 2010-2013 (Photo: with Dr. Rosemary G. Feal, then Executive Director, MLA Awards Ceremony, Chicago, 2014)

PRF Research Grant, Comparative Literature Department, Purdue University, “The Acquisition of the Body’s Language(s): An Interdisciplinary Study in Literature, Art, and Bioethics,” 2006-2007 Puskas Fellowship Award, Comparative Literature Department, Purdue University, “Carved in the Flesh: Discourses of Spatiality and the Bioethics of Medicine,” 2005-2006 Purdue Research Foundation, Summer Grant, Purdue University, 2004 Faculty Service Advisor for Casey Pidcock, “Cautionary Letters (of War and Communism),” part of Pace President Krislov’s inaugural student exhibit, 25 October, 2017 https://ugresearch.blogs.pace.edu/category/summer-2017/casey-pidcock/

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Advisor for Chloe Richards, the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Grant Title of the Project: “Sharing Englishes and Social Media,” academic year 2017-2018 Creator of an honors learning community course, Immigration and Englishes, spring 2018 Advisor for Casey Pidcock, Pace Undergraduate Student and Faculty Research Program, Student Engagement and Retention Specialist in the Division for Student Success, Title of the Project: “Overlapped Semantics of Survival after Communism and War,” summer 2017 Advisor for Chloe Richards, Pace Undergraduate Student and Faculty Research Program, Student Engagement and Retention Specialist in the Division for Student Success, Title of the Project: “Sharing Englishes and Social Media,” summer 2017 Invited talk, “Writing in Exile.” May Day: A Pace University “Teach-In.” Manhattan Campus, 2017. WEC Awards Ceremony, Advisor for Charlotte McPherson, winner, for a piece titled “Amir: An Individual from Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar,” Spring 2017 (Course taught: LIT 211, The Individual & Society, fall 2016) WEC Awards Ceremony, Advisor for Mukta Oberoi, winner, for a piece titled “New Encounters: Reflections on Fatal Migration by Josh Begley,” Spring 2017 (Course taught: LIT 211, The Individual & Society, fall 2016) WEC Awards Ceremony, Advisor for Brandon Amato, winner, for a piece titled “Culture, Art, & Activism in Lucy R. Lippard’s ‘Trojan Horses: Activist Art and Power,’ Fredrick C. Harris’ ‘The Next Civil Rights Movement?, and the horror film Get Out directed by Jordan Peele,” Spring 2017 (Course taught: LIT 303, Intro to Cultural Studies, spring 2017) WEC Awards Ceremony, Advisor for Stephanie Harp, winner, for a piece titled “Two Women in Dialogue: Mary Wollstonecraft and Maria Edgeworth,” Spring 2017 (Course taught: LIT 212, Romanticism and the Modern World, spring 2017) Advisor for Roxana Saravia, The Dean’s List Celebration for Honors Students, Manhattan Campus, 2017. Creator of a new honors, interdisciplinary, learning community course, “21st Century Dramatic Texts as Inter-Cultural Dialogue,” fall 2017 Student and Faculty Research Days, The Office of Sponsored Research, Division for Student Success, and Pforzheimer Honors College, LIT 212, Romanticism and the Modern World. Title of the project: Walking with H.D. Thoreau, 2017 Advisor for Annabelle Krupcheck, Pace Undergraduate Student and Faculty Research Program, Student Engagement and Retention Specialist in the Division for Student Success, Title of the Project: Reinvented Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Project, summer 2016 Student and Faculty Research Days, The Office of Sponsored Research, Division for Student Success, and Pforzheimer Honors College, ENG 201, Writing in the Disciplines, The Arts. Title of the project: A Humument, 2016 Publications Authored Books 3 Plays (Mia; Suicidal Dog & Laika; The Aftertastes of Life). PalmArtPress. Berlin, Germany (2018)

Teatru. Editura Tracuş Arte. Bucureşti, Romania (2018) (in Romanian)

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The Night I Burned My Origami Skin (poems/creative writing), Anaphora Literary Press, December, 2017. Endorsed by: Christine Hamm, author of Echo Park; Charlie Samuya Veric, author of Boyhood: A Long Lyric; and Frank Morrelli, author of No Sad Songs. With a Foreword by Kirsten Miles, National Director of the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project (Invited to read at the AWP Annual Conference, 2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTFbJM_BZ5g&index=1&list=UUra7jQXJvN6AIglLDzX0X0A

Of Silences in Munch, Beckett, Hopper, and Hanson (A Monograph) (literary criticism; art criticism; philosophy of being; performance studies; interdisciplinary writing) LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany, 2017

Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile (exile/immigration in literature and film; Englishes; cultural studies; interdisciplinary studies; transnational literatures; diaspora literature; activism; translation); Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Lanham, MD (forthcoming, 2017) Endorsed by: Floyd Merrell, Purdue U; Julie Rak, U of Alberta; Lenutsa Giukin, SUNY Oswego; Alexandru Balasescu; Felicity Hand Cranham, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Noemi Marin, Florida Atlantic U; Lavinia Stan, St. Francis Xavier U; With a Prologue by Dr. Margarita Georgieva; and with an Epilogue by Dr. Maria Hadjipolycarpou; Cover: La dérive des continents by Antoine Josse (painting). Publicity event/Book launch: About Immigration and Englishes, CEERES of Voices, University of Chicago, IL, January, 12th, 2018. MLA Book Exhibit, New York, NY, 2018.

Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood* (literary criticism; comparative feminism; motion picture). Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Lanham, MD, 2013. Endorsed by: Erica Johnson; Fiona Giles; Natalie Edwards. With an Introduction by Marilyn Francus of West Virginia University. MLA Book Exhibit, Chicago, IL, 2014. *Currently owned by more than 400 universities worldwide. Library of Congress Call Number: PN56.5.M67 D57 2013 OVERFLOWA5S http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00497878.2014.922027?journalCode=gwst20&#.WdYNDYdr5CA.mailto

Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces* (literary criticism; medical humanities; attitudes toward death). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, London, U.K., 2011, 195 pages. Electronic version accessible at http://search.ebscohost.com/ *Currently owned by more than 700 universities worldwide Library of Congress Call Number: PN56.B62 F56 2011 Social Media Site: https://www.facebook.com/Dr.CatalinaFlorinaFlorescu/

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Inventing Me/Exerciţii de retrăit. (non-fiction/memoir). Editura Scrisul Românesc, Craiova, Romania, 2011, 142 pages (in Romanian) Review: “Directia superioara a spiritului creator” by N.N. Negulescu, Constelatii diamantine 2.3 (7) 2011. Release press: Biblioteca Judeteana Alexandru si Aristia Aman, Craiova, July, 2011. http://reteaualiterara.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lansare-de-carte-la-craiova http://www.totpal.ro/catalina-florina-florescu-%E2%80%9Einventing-me-%E2%80%93-exercitii-de-re-trait%E2%80%9D/ https://www.academia.edu/34077427/Despre_cartea_mea_de_memorie_editorial Book Chapters (Invited chapter) “Who Is not Sylvia? A Character Analysis of Stevie from Edward Albee’s The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia?” Contemporary Literature Criticism on Edward Albee. Ed. by Lawrence Trudeau. Layman Poupard Publishing, Columbia, SC, 2018 (forthcoming) (Reprint)

“Introduction” and “Mise en abîme with my Immigrants.” Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Lanham, MD, 2017 (forthcoming) “Eight Students at Hudson County Community College in Search of a Better Life.” The Students beyond the Stats: The Stories that Should Be Shaping Higher Ed Reform (but Aren’t). Eds. Jennifer Levi and Susan Bernadzikowski. University of Chicago Press, 2017 (forthcoming)

“Ruins and Memorials: Challenging Absence Architecturally in New York City.” The City since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television. Ed. Keith Wilhite. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, March 2016 Library of Congress Call Number: PS374.C5 C525 2016

“Scrabble Cancer Project: To Mom, Forever (Notes from an Ongoing Diary).” Looking For The Enemy: The Eternal Internal Gender Wars of Our Sisters. Eds. Monique Ferrell and Julian Williams. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2015

“Police, Adjective: A Journey and a Halt straight to the Center of Words.” Small Cinemas in Global Markets: Genres, Identities, Narratives. Ed. Lenuta Giukin. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group. 51-66. 2014 Library of Congress Call Number: PN1995 .S5354 2015 To be cited in the Oxford UP bibliography on Romanian cinema: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0156.xml

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“Nomad/’Romanglish.’” Between History and Personal Narrative: East-European Women’s Stories of Migration in the New Millennium. Eds. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Madalina Nicolaescu, Helen Smith. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2013

“Mother-less: Joan Didion’s Blue Nights and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole.” Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood. Ed. Catalina Florina Florescu. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. Library of Congress Call Number: PN56.5.M67 D57 2013 OVERFLOWA5S

“The Secret Passage.” Lafayette—Our Cancer Year. E-book:

http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/oncological/about/cancer-stories.php, Purdue U, 2011

“Performing Memories: Communism as Rhizome.” Romanian Culture in the Global Age. Eds. Rodica Mihaila and Dana Mihailescu. U of Bucharest P, 2010

“Ne Habeas Corpus in Brian Clark’s Whose Life Is It Anyway? and Alejandro Amenábar’s The Sea

Inside,” The Patient: Essays in the Medical Humanities. Eds. Harold Schweizer and Kimberly R. Myers, Bucknell UP, 2010

“Of Genes, Mutations, and Desires in Moacyr Scliar’s The Centaur in the Garden and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphoses.” The Body in Medical Culture. Ed. Elizabeth Klaver, SUNY, 2009. Library of Congress Call Number: RA418 .B5795 2009 “The Double Rhetoric in William Shakespeare’s Othello and Richard II.” Fuzy Spaces. Eds. Sibel Sayili and Natasa Momcilovic. Purdue UP, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 3-9. 2002 Critical Essays & Creative Articles

“Andrei Şerban Metamorphosing The Sea Gull,” Scena, 38 (2017). Link to be announced.

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“Everybody Wants to Be like Me: Sameness and Difference in Bernard Pomerance’s Play The Elephant Man.” Le Comparatisme comme approche critique/Comparative Literature as a Critical Approach. ed. Anne Tomiche, Paris, Classiques Garnier. 2017 https://www.classiques-garnier.com/editions-tabmats/AteMS04_tabmat.pdf Ebony Bones (2014) by Iulia Pană, transl. by Adrian G. Sahlean. The RSAA Journal http://thersaa.org/journal-current-issue “Four Short Literary Incisions” (“Or How I Have Started to Write about Things that Did not Let Me Sleep”). Hektoen International (Hektoen Institute of Medicine). 5.4 (2013) “There Is Something about Deception: The Crude Perspective in Neil LaBute’s Play Fat Pig.” Texas Theatre Journal. 6.1 (2012) “Identity, Hospital, and Cancer: The Story of Lucy Grealy.” Journal of International Women’s Studies. 13.1(2012) “The X-Rayed Memory of a Cancerous Breast.” DisClosure: A Journal of Social Theory. College of Arts and Science. U of Kentucky. 21 (2012): 80-82 “Into the Silence of the Objects: Analyzing Beckett’s Nothingness.” Babilónia: Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução. 10-11 (2012) “My Blue Escape, My Otherness of Being.” Touchstone Magazine. English Department, Kansas State U. 44 (2012): 26-27 “Who Is Not Sylvia? A Character Analysis of Stevie from Edward Albee’s The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia?” The AnaChronisT. 16 (2011) “Violated Intimacy or Procreation non Sequitur in Cristian Mungiu’s Film 432.” Otherness: Essays and Studies. The Center for Studies in Otherness. 2.2 (2011) “Impossible Returns through Joy Kogawa’s Novel Obasan.” Issue: Multilingual Realities in Translations. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. 11.1 (2011) “Reinventing Demeter through Persephone’s Suffering and Altruism.” The Problems of Literary Genres. 54.1 (2011) (I Am) Still Here—Performing Memory Using Mobile Devices,” Journal of Contemporary Thought. 33 Summer (2011) “An Analysis of Athol Fugard’s ‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys,” Encyclopedia of General Themes in Literature. Ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2011 “Narrating and Performing the Pain of the Other in Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz and Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. 12.3 (2010) “Disappeared.” EAPSU: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work. 7 (2010): 78-89

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“Miasma and/as Uncontrolled Political Discourses.” Atenea: A Bilingual Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 30.1-2 (2010) “End of Season Liquidation Sale.” Hektoen International. 2.3 (2010) “The Atrophy of Esse Est Percipi in Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair.” Language, Literature and Cultural Studies / Langue, littérature et études culturelles. 2.2 (2009) “Questioning Two Canonical Concepts of ‘Self’ and ‘Authenticity’ in Pedro Almodóvar’s Film All about My Mother.” University of Bucharest Review: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. U of Bucharest, 10.1 (2008): 136-141 “Ars Moriendi, the Erotic Self, and AIDS.” Media/Culture Journal. 11.3 (2008) “Selective Lobotomy: Of Politically (In)Correct Issues in David Wojnarowicz’s Artworks.” Artciencia. 9.4 (2008) “The Dance of Life Accompanied by the Music of Death in Yasmina Reza’s Plays and Novels.” Journal of Drama Studies: An International Journal of Research on World Drama in English. 1.2 (2007) “Verbal and Visual Rhetorics of Cancer: Defying Cancer in Margaret Edson, Audre Lorde, and Jo Spence’s Works.” Journal of International Women’s Studies. 8.1 (2006) “Betrayed Hopes, Wounded Bodies: Whose Reality Matters in David W. Hwang’s M. Butterfly and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America? American. 4.1 (2006) “Teaching Plan for Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape,” Theatre Pedagogy Papers, MATC, The Mid-America Theatre Conference, CD-ROM, 2006 Scholarly Conferences and Presentations *(respondent) Herta Müller and the Romanian Language, Culture, and Politics, MLA, New York, 20185 “Children Left Behind: The Empty Road in Teodora Mihai’s Waiting for August.” 10th Annual Romanian Studies Conference, Indiana Bloomington, 2017 “Communism as Entangled Parables in Herta Müller’s Novella The Passport.” MLA. Philadelphia, 2017 *“Post-scriptum: The Digital Nomad.” MLA. Philadelphia, 20176 “Teaching Herta Müller.” Transitions and Transactions III: Literature and Journalism. Pedagogies in Community Colleges. The Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, 2016. “Medicine, Make Me Immortal!,” ACLA, Harvard U, 2016 “The Impossible Return in Stere Gulea’s film Weekend with Mama,” MLA. Austin, Texas, 2016 “Elasticity or the Sentimental Phenomenology of Skin and Love in Sarah Ruhl’s Clean House,” ACLA, Seattle, 2015

5 Panel Selected to be part of the Presidential Address on “States of Insecurity.” 6 Panel Selected to be part of the Presidential Address on “Boundary Conditions” delivered by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

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“A Woman’s Inhumane, Torturous Death in Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills.” MLA. Vancouver, Canada. 2015

“Minor Romanian Literature and Cinema.” MLA. Vancouver, Canada. 2015

“Teaching Monstrosity: Embracing Sympathy,” Transitions and Transactions: Literature and Creative Writing Pedagogies, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City U of New York, 2014 “States of Nomadism and the Recreation of the Immigrant Self.” ACLA. New York University. 2014 “About Memory in Sarah Ruhl’s Play Dead Man’s Cell Phone.” CityWide: A Multimodal Conference of Theater and Performance. CUNY Graduate Center. 2013 “Everybody Wants to Be like Me: Sameness and Difference in Bernard Pomerance’s Play The Elephant Man,” ILCA Annual Congress. L’Université Paris-Sorbonne. France. 2013 “(I Am) Still Here- Performing Memory Using Mobile Devices.” ACLA. University of Toronto. Canada. 2013 “Nomad/Romanglish.” Europeanization and Globalization. Lucian Blaga University. Sibiu. Romania. 2012 “Scrabble Cancer Project: To Mom, Forever (Notes from an Ongoing Diary).” ACLA. Brown U, 2012 “Violated Intimacy or Procreation non Sequitur in Cristian Mungiu’s Film 432.” MLA. Los Angeles, 2011. “Le Corps Perdu/Le Corps Continué in the Works of Félix Gonzales-Torres.” ACLA. New Orleans. 2010 “Performing Memories: Confessions after Communism.” MLA. Philadelphia. 2009 “Of Genes, Mutations, and Desires in Moacyr Scliar’s The Centaur in the Garden and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphoses.” ACLA. Harvard U, 2009 “Pain as Dark Comedy in Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz.” ACLA. Long Beach, 2008 “Questioning Two Canonical Concepts, of ‘Self’ and ‘Authenticity’ in Pedro Almódovar’s All about My Mother.” Writing the Self—Modes of the Self-Portrayal in the Cultural Text. U of Bucharest, 2008 “Carved in the Body’s Memories: The Theater of Cruelty as Presented in Jean Genet’s The Balcony and Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros,” 47th M/MLA. Milwaukee, 2005 “The Bodymind: A Visual Approach.” The Semiotic Society of America. Purdue U, 2006 “Ne Habeas Corpus in Brian Clark’s Whose Life Is It Anyway? and Alejandro Amenábar’s The Sea Inside.” The Patient: A Symposium. Bucknell U, 2006 “Collapsing Worlds before and after Communist Regime in Lucian Pintilie’s Balanţa and Nae Caranfil’s Filantropica.” MLA. Philadelphia, 2006 “’Scenes’” of Imprisonment through the Misuse and/or Abuse of Language: A Reading of Athol Fugard’s ‘Master Harold’ and the Boys, The Blood Knot, and A Lesson from Aloes.” ACLA. Penn State U, 2005 “Back into the Chrysalis: Desperately Seeking Meaning—A Comparative Approach of Luigi Pirandello’s Henry IV and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.” ACLA. U of Michigan, 2004 “I Sense the Scent of a Trapped Being: Duane Hanson’s Sculptures.” Popular American Association, New Orleans, 2004

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“I have Taught Others All My Life, Now My Body Teaches Me about Cancer: A Reading of Margaret Edson’s Wit.” M/MLA. St. Louis, 2004 “Trapped in the Word: A Comparative Approach to Silence in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and William Shakespeare’s Richard II.” The Southern Annual Comparative Literature Convention. U of Austin, 2003. “The Double Rhetoric in René Magritte’s Paintings.” SW/Texas PCA/ACA. Albuquerque, 2003. (Cont.) Teaching Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey (2011; 2014; 2017) CAL 103: Freshman Writing & Communication HLI 220: Images of Science in Literature HLI 318: Caribbean Literature and Culture HLI 413: Literature by Women in English from 14th Century until Today Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, NY (2012-2016) ENG 111 H (Honors) Non-Western Women’s World Literature; ENG 110: Contemporary American Drama; ENG 101: College Writing Metropolitan College of New York, Manhattan Campus, New York, NY (2011-2013) “Critical Thinking and Writing through the Study of Literature & Social Studies” Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ (2010-2012) “Composition I” & “Composition II” St. Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ (2010-2011) “Composition 102” & “Composition 104”, and “Special Topics in Literature: Immigration” Rutgers University (2007-2008) “Expository Writing” Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2005-2007) Research Assistant, Comparative Lit Program Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2001-2007) Teaching Assistant, Latin 101, 102 & Mythology, Foreign Literatures & Languages Department Additional Professional Experience Blogger, Museum of Motherhood, Manhattan, New York, http://www.mommuseum.org/blog/, April 2012-2013 Examiner & Grader, SECE Exam, Stevens Institute of Technology, Jan 2011-May 2011 Certified Online Rater, ETS (Educational Testing Services), CAHSEE Program, Jan-May 2008 Research Assistant, Purdue Research Foundation, Comparative Literature, Purdue University, IN, 2006-2007 Research Assistant, Puskas Fellowship, Comparative Literature, Purdue University, 2005-2006 Co-Editor of Refractions, Proceedings of the Annual Graduate Students’ Conference, Purdue University, 2004. Teaching Assistant, Purdue University (2001-2005), Latin 101, Latin 102 and Greek Mythology. References Work: Dr. Erica Johnson, Chair, English Department, Pace University, ejohnson@pace.edu Dr. Ann Hurley, Wagner College, ahurley@wagner.edu

Research: Dr. Lenuta Giukin, SUNY Oswego, lenuta.giukin@oswego.edu Dr. Jennifer Musial, New Jersey City University, jmusial@njcu.edu Dr. Sharon Decker, Chair, Centenary College, deckers@centenarycollege.edu

Dr. Jaqueline Brady, Associate Director of Freshman English, Kingsborough CC Jacqueline.Brady@kbcc.cuny.edu Dr. Elizabeth Mix, Associate Professor of Art, Butler University, emix@butler.edu

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Education*: Dr. Keith M. Dickson, Purdue University, kdickson@purdue.edu, Dr. Thomas Adler (retired), Dr. Elizabeth Klaver (Southern Illinois U), Dr. Floyd Merrell (retired). *NB: For my education endorsements, please contact Brandi J. Plantenga, Program Assistant, bplante@purdue.edu

Travel grants University Scholarly Presentation Support Fund, Pace University, MLA, Philadelphia, 2017 University Scholarly Presentation Support Fund, Pace University, ACLA, Harvard University, 2016 University Scholarly Presentation Support Fund, Pace University, MLA, Vancouver, 2015 Modern Language Association: Travel Grant, MLA, Chicago, IL, 2014 American Comparative Literature Association: Travel Grant, ACLA, New Orleans, LA, 2010 Modern Language Association: Travel Grant, MLA, Philadelphia, PA, 2009 Modern Language Association: Travel Grant, MLA, San Francisco, CA, 2008 American Comparative Literature Association: Travel Grant, ACLA, Long Beach, CA, 2008 Language skills Romanian, English, and Latin (highly proficient) French (advanced reading) Professional Sites Author Central: http://www.amazon.com/Catalina-Florina-Florescu/e/B005DUTDMS LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/drflorescu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatalinaFlorinaFlorescu/?pnref=lhc